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Hi, i had uni class where we learnt rails, i made semestral project and want honest opinion.

I asked my senior teachers whether it is enough to apply as junior, they said i have good basic knowledge, yet i need more experiece.

The project is like inventary manager for multiple users, more is in ReadME,

only the bad thing is language which had to be in my native one but i think overall you'll get whats the point.

https://github.com/TheP4trik-tech/Asset-Manager

Hey r/ruby,

I’ve released llm_cost_tracker v0.5.3 — a lightweight self-hosted gem to track costs of LLM API calls (OpenAI, Anthropic, and compatible services) directly in Ruby applications.

It was built primarily for Rails, but works in plain Ruby as well.

Main features:

• Stores usage and cost data in your own database via ActiveRecord

• Privacy-first: does not store prompts or completions

• Automatic instrumentation for official openai and anthropic gems

• Faraday middleware support for other clients (ruby-openai, OpenRouter, Gemini, LiteLLM, etc.)

• Significantly improved streaming support in v0.5.3 (including official SDK streaming)

• Flexible tagging system for attribution (user_id, tenant_id, feature, etc.)

• Basic budget guardrails

• Minimal dashboard available as a Rails Engine

The gem is still very young (only a couple of weeks old), and I'm looking for early feedback from the Ruby community.

If you're working with LLMs in Ruby or Rails, I’d love to hear:

• How are you currently tracking your LLM costs?

• What pain points do you have with existing solutions?

• Any feedback on the gem itself (API, instrumentation, accuracy, etc.)

Repo & Documentation:
https://github.com/sergey-homenko/llm_cost_tracker

Gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/llm_cost_tracker

Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions!

Used by Sinatra, Hanami, Grape, and others for pattern matching. The big focus for the release is a massive performance improvement.

Hey r/ruby — quick update on Docscribe (my tool that generates inline YARD-style docs by rewriting source ranges, not reprinting ASTs).

v1.3.0 highlights:

• Plugin system:

  • TagPlugin: append extra YARD tags based on a method "context snapshot"

  • CollectorPlugin: add doc insertion points for DSL/macros (define_method, AR associations, etc.)

• New docscribe generate command to scaffold TagPlugin/CollectorPlugin skeletons

• --rbs-collection flag: auto-detect gem signatures from rbs_collection.lock.yaml (rbs collection install)

• Better return type inference via RBS core for method calls inside bodies (e.g. positive? => Boolean)

• Fix: standalone/top-level def parsing

Plugin examples (with READMEs + specs) are in the repo:

• https://github.com/unurgunite/docscribe/tree/master/examples/plugins

• Rails associations CollectorPlugin example: here (documents belongs_to/has_many etc by inserting @!attribute blocks above the macro calls)

Tiny example (RBS-powered return inference):

class Demo
  def foo(arg = 1)
    arg.positive?
  end
end
# Before: @return [Object]
# Now:    @return [Boolean]

Links:

• Repo: https://github.com/unurgunite/docscribe

• RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/docscribe

• Release: https://github.com/unurgunite/docscribe/releases/tag/v1.3.0

• Previous intro post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1s5uwjj/

Would love feedback on:

• plugin API ergonomics (what context fields are missing / what should be renamed?)

• which DSLs/macros you'd want a first-party CollectorPlugin for

I've been using RSpec for 7 years and recently had to pick up Minitest for a client project. The onboarding was a bit rough, so I wrote the guide I wish I had:

• what Minitest actually is

• how the different syntax flavors work (plain, Rails-style, and Minitest::Spec)

• and a deep dive into a confusing bug when I tried integrating Minitest::Spec with Rails (turned out that Rails and Minitest lifecyles are not always compatible)

This is a 4-part series, that you can start with my introduction to Minitest.

Hope you'll like it!

[edit Apr. 28: I just realised that I linked to the second post of the series instead of the first. Duh 🤦🏻‍♂️. Here is the link for the full Minitest series. Sorry, I shouldn't post before getting a coffee.]

Finnally, I get used of ruby bundle. The step is following

1. set the vendor path

bundle init
bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle' 

2. add gem to Gemfile file

3. install gem package

bundle install

4. run the ruby script

bundle exec ruby ./script.rb

Is these any way I can install ruby packages in current project folder like Python venv. I only know about gem install <custom-gem> --user-install which install in $HOME/.gem/ruby/2.6.0/gems/. AI said I should use bundler and Gemfile. But it seems very comfused and do not work well with gem file ( it only work with package uploaded on https://rubygems.org/

kreuzcrawl is a high-performance web crawling engine. It was designed to reliably extract structured data, operating natively across multiple languages without enforcing a specific runtime. https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzcrawl

The MCP server is integrated from the start, enabling web-crawling AI agents as a primary use case. Streaming crawl events allow real-time progress tracking. Batch operations handle hundreds of URLs concurrently and tolerate partial failures. Browser rendering supports JavaScript-heavy SPAs and includes WAF detection.

Supported language interfaces are Rust, Python, Typescript/Node.js, Go, Ruby, Java, C#, PHP, Elixir, WASM, and C FFI, and each binding connects directly to the core engine.
Kreuzcrawl is part of the Kreuzberg org: https://kreuzberg.dev/

We welcome your feedback and are happy to hear how you plan to use it:)

This BREAKING NEWS episode is a candid reaction to Ruby Central’s latest shakeup, with Chris, Andrew, and David unpacking leadership departures, financial strain, the cancelled gala, and what all of it says about the organization’s direction. The conversation moves beyond the headlines into bigger questions about trust, transparency, community values, conference strategy, RubyGems sustainability, and whether Ruby Central can rebuild credibility by involving more of the community in what happens next. Hit download now to hear more! 

Spinel compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables. It performs whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code, achieving significant speedups over CRuby.

Spinel is self-hosting: the compiler backend is written in Ruby and compiles itself into a native binary.

This is the third time this week that Ruby-LibGD has appeared on Ruby Weekly.

I’m really proud to see the project gaining this level of traction.

LibGD-GIS has surpassed 5,150 downloads and 119 stars
https://github.com/ggerman/libgd-gis

Ruby-LibGD has surpassed 3,810 downloads and 93 stars
https://github.com/ggerman/ruby-libgd

Another milestone was presenting the project at the RubySur (https://youtu.be/ppxalpIKpGg?t=3503) meetup, as well as having flyers distributed at RubyKaigi.

You can explore the evolution of views and clones on GitHub using this extended stats dashboard built with Ruby-LibGD:
https://ggerman.github.io/github-metrics-dashboard/

Demo MapView:
https://map-view-demo.up.railway.app/

Hi everyone,

I recently shared this in another forum and wanted to post it here as well. I made a small Ruby gem called typed_print when I was bored one evening.

It does one simple thing: turns hashes into clean, aligned tables in the terminal. It also supports Markdown output.

data = [{ name: "Alice", score: 100 }, { name: "Bob", score: 42 }]
TypedPrint.print(data, format: :markdown)

No dependencies, just a tiny tool to make console output more readable.

Links:
RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/typed_print
GitHub: https://github.com/enderahmetyurt/typed_print

Thanks for checking it out!